[TriLUG] diskless x86

[Tom Bryan]

On Saturday 27 July 2002 12:04 am, Chris Merrill wrote:

> Is there PC hardware that can boot from LAN?
> I'm quite curious as to how one could get
> Linux into RAM without some flavor of storage
> device (floppy, CD, HD)?

When I had BIOS misconfigured and the wrong disk was being read, the machine 
started looking for a bootp (I think) server.  I'm not sure whether that's a 
function of my motherboard or what, but it certainly looks possible.  I guess 
I assumed that's part of what http://www.k12ltsp.org/ terminal server was 
about, but that might just be a bad assumption.

---Tom